It is time to cut system dependencies, the most stupid one by far is buying this damn tobacco all the time.
Apart from my health, this one nudged me to give up. I hated being dependant on it. Hated always worrying when I got to the end of a pouch, the yellow fingers, the clothes and hair stinking of smoke to what - ingest chemicals? Placate anxiety?
Best tip ever is to here on say to yourself and others: 'i don't smoke'. Accept yourself as a non smoker and you shall create that reality. Plus, delay. It's a mind game. Anything to delay the cravings - that gap gets longer. Get up, go for a walk, do the dishes, drink water, eat sunflower seeds, have a wank, whatever. Just don't be a weakling that gives in to base cravings ;) xx
Anything that makes us addicted and gives money to companies who are busy trying to find another way to hoodwink us and poison us is clearly evil.
thanks for your take! it's everything I'm doing right now, so that jives. i would like to keep smoke sometimes - ceremonially - and not factory tobacco but something real, self-made and infused with love and intention from my own garden.
i like smoking and have always liked it.
quitting smoking altogether is just the drastic measure now to get me off the industry tobacco. but i am really not sure i am a strict non smoker on principle. or maybe i just want to make it hard for myself ahahah.
it's been 36 hours or so and the cravings haven't been half as bad as i expected them to be yesterday, then delaying and gapping everything. worked beautifully as you say.
thanks for your support! it always means more coming from those who have walked it themselves! blessings
I loved smoking. I really did. But after years of off and on, I had to call it. I'm glad I did. I'm sure smoking tobacco you grow (such a pretty plant) is much better, and you can make a whole ritual out of it.
You know, I am also asthmatic, so continuing smoking for me was dumb. I was also an anxiety smoker, a fantastic chain smoker especially when consuming other things. A complicated relationship with my breath and emotions, both connected of course. Replacing tobacco with pranayama was a good thing personally for me. But I missed my smoking for a good long while. You know I haven't smoked for nearly twenty years now and sometimes I still feel my jeans pocket once in a while to get my lighter? Or my brain goes, momentarily, 'just ducking outside for a smoke'.
wow that is both depressing and encouraging. i will always know i have someone on hive to keep me straight.
it's better today but i can't say i wouldn't like to smoke one.
just distracting myself with chores of all kinds until it hopefully dissipates mostly. it was high tome
thanks for sharing river!!
It's an interesting process if you see it that way. Mu hubs never thinks about it ever and he smoked from 11 to 32.
sweet to hear that thanks!!! we all probably react differently, sort of excited to see what type i am turning out to be.
aye, i have always big on self-experimentation.
everything feels sort of airlocky here, like coming out of a dark forest hike, slightly elevated body feeling of fluff, like walking on air.
at the same time the cravings are going down. i just drink a ton of hot drinks now like a madman. and i delay.
i did think of you often yesterday with the "just delay" hack. it is so straightforward and helpful to hear it put that concisely by someone else, my gratitude for sharing that!
to have a concept to grasp when the body goes haywire for a moment. really looking forward to the crazy times ahead, i left so much baggage behind again this winter, im really happy about it!
blessings!!!
Oh I'm soooo pleased, and stoked you took that on board. I'd given up heaps of times but once I embraced that trick it got so much easier. So happy.
Huzzah!
Yes. I kinda struggled with that as I'm an air sign and when not balanced, it's like I needed to smoke to ground me, if that makes sense.
yeah that makes a lot of sense. smoking had this distraction quality to it, now i need to actively look for things.
i have a huge surplus of energy and yesterday i needed to literally go cut some trees to not go crazy. ahahaha